Popular Philosophy

These essays on Food and Philosophy were written over several decades. Not only philosophers and historians but individuals who have an ongoing int...

WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE THE STARS?'Look at a satellite image of the Earth. Where it was once as dark as night, it is now lit up like a Christmas tree...

Materialism asserts that the universe and everything within it, including ourselves, is a deterministic machine, trapped until the end of time on t...

An incisive argument for the relevance of political philosophy and its possibility of effecting change.The appeal of political philosophy is that i...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring 'Know thyself' is said to have been one of the maxims carved into the Temple of Apollo at De...

What kind of life would be truly worth wanting? What kind of world would be truly worth seeking? How should we live?We are facing a crisis of meani...

Narrated by Charlie Mackesy. Brought to you by Penguin. With music by Max Richter and Isobel Waller-Bridge.Discover the universal tale of four unli...

Health Economics and Financing What are the metaphysics of time travel? How can Hurley exist in two places at the same time? What does it mean for ...

Health Economics and Financing What are the metaphysics of time travel? How can Hurley exist in two places at the same time? What does it mean for ...

How can science help us live better and longer? A groundbreaking exploration of longevity from Nobel Prize-winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan SH...

The future is alongside us, sometimes closer, sometimes further away. Hidden Valleys starts from the perception that the human world is an eerie pl...

Philosopher Travis Rieder outlines a new ethics for the age of humanmade catastrophe. We are all asking, in a hyperglobalised world hurtling toward...

Life constantly requires us to give other people some hugely awkward messages: that we dont love them anymore; that we do love them (though were no...

An inspiring curated selection of 40 photographs and artworks with accompanying essays examining the skill of confidence. The difference between s...

One of the difficulties about how our minds work is that we often cannot quite clearly see or know what is inside us. Art therapists have a longsta...

The modern world can present the body as a machine that just needs to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkably sensitive organ in which ...

A groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan 'Enthralling and packed...

Later I realised that this was the most powerful moment of the journey for me. Here I was, a stranger who had wandered in from the Tibetan plateau ...

In Why Am I Like This?, Dr. Jen Martin delves into the science behind our strangest thoughts and habits, from why smells make us homesick to why we...

We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Yet sometimes even t...

Getting Dressed teaches sociology through the everyday decision of what to wear. It is about the rules that shape how we dress and how and why we c...

Shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize.A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize othersand how and why we do it.I wouldnt have...